I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.
They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.
This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.
Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best.
I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.
Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.
There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.
Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.
Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.
You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then you look back and say, ‘Well, that was a neat piece of juggling there -- school, marriage, babies, career.’ The enthusiasms took me through the action, not the measuring of it or the reasonableness.
Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.
I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving into the past and reaching into the future simultaneously.
I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.
Hey, I know it's Monday, but it's also a new day, a new week and in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.
Jimmer Fredette is the best scorer in the world!!
I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.
When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman.
You were put here to protect us. But who protects us from you?
You can take back all the things you give, But you can't take back the days you live. Life is to some people who've been on earth Livin' every single day for what it's worth. I live life just how I please, Satisfy one person I know: that's me.
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